Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Nuclear Engineer, Humanitarian: President Jimmy Carter (1 Oct 1924 - 29 Dec 2024)

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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, US President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, celebrate after signing the Camp David Peace Accords in 1978. (Photo: Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group via Getty Images)



US President Jimmy Carter and Panama’s General Omar Torrijos shake hands after signing the Panama Canal Torrijos-Carter Treaties on 7 Sep 1977.



President Jimmy Carter, in his first full day in office, fulfilled a campaign promise by granting unconditional pardons to hundreds of thousands of men who had evaded the draft during the Vietnam War by fleeing the country or by failing to register with their Selective Service boards. He also ordered a review of military desertion cases.




After leaving the White House, President Carter established the Carter Center for Peace and volunteered to build homes with Habitats for Humanity.



Jimmy Carter’s wife, Rosalynn, and his mother, Lillian, pin ensign bars on his epaulets after his graduation from the US Naval Academy in 1946. He would learn to fly sea-planes and nuclear engineering for submarines. (Photo US Navy)


The US Navy’s work in developing the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, meant that Admiral Hyman Rickover and Lieutenant James Carter had access to the latest and greatest in top-secret nuclear energy technology. So when Canada’s Chalk River nuclear research facility experienced a power surge that damaged its reactor, the US sent Carter and his team. He was one of a few people in the world who could do it and he averted a nuclear disaster.


The Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario, Canada, were opened in 1944. In Sep 1945, the facility put the first nuclear reactor outside of the US into operation.


President Jimmy Carter who brought peace to Israel and Egypt, returned the Panama Canal to its rightful owners, and gave amnesty to Vietnam War draft evaders, was most proud of the fact that not one bullet was fired under his administration. No other American President can say that.

The Carter Center released this photograph of the funeral:


Notably absent from the photo because of the camera angle, are Russian President Vladimir Putin’s protege, Donald Trump and his tackily dressed wife Melania. They will all be re-uniting in ten days for Trump’s inauguration, keeping the USSS super busy.

[AloeVera]

1. Nicely done!

An intelligent, under-rated, honourable, good and just man. The best. May he rest in peace.

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2. You wrote it better than me. Thanks, Aloe Vera